UN: Albania's population is expected to decrease to 1.2 million inhabitants

2022-07-27 07:59:19Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

 UN: Albania's population is expected to decrease to 1.2 million inhabitants

Albania's population risks shrinking to 1.2 million inhabitants, a figure close to that of 1960.

In the early 1990s, the country's population almost tripled, reaching 3.3 million.

After the 1990s, the rapid developments that took place in the country also brought great demographic changes. The population began to decline rapidly, influenced first by the high level of immigration that peaked in the first decade of the transition and then by the new lifestyle, with lower birth rates and smaller families.

At the end of 2021, the population of Albania is estimated to be 2.8 million inhabitants, although this is only an estimate, since the last Census was carried out in 2010, while the new one is expected to take place this year.

The United Nations (UN) predicts that the number of inhabitants living in Albania will continue to shrink rapidly in the coming years.

According to UN forecasts, by 2050 the population of Albania is expected to decrease to 2.5 million inhabitants and by the year 2100 it will shrink to 1.1 million inhabitants, thus reaching the levels of the 1960s.

Other data processed by Visual Capitalist show that Albania's population is expected to shrink by 15.8% by 2050, according to the report, ranking tenth, after Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Moldova and Japan.


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